Anonymous Protests At Sony Centres Fail, Epically

Mortal enemy of Sony, Anonymous, recently threatened the company with a mass protest that would involve supporters sitting outside Sony Centres and returning Sony products. As a result, Sony enlisted police to protect their stores from supporters of the hacker group but the whole operation was a complete and utterly epic failure. Nobody turned up.

“Operation Sony success,” wrote the author of the page. “Sony closed UK stores during protests on Saturday. The fight for the fair consumer rights goes on.

“There will be another protest date. This movement does not end here.”

For those who don’t know, the group’s issue with Sony stems from George ‘GeoHot” Hotz’s out of court settlement with Sony. Last week Anonymous announced that it would strike Sony with “the biggest attack you have ever witnessed”. And then this happens. Uh, yeah.

This vow came after the group put its war on PSN on pause.

“Anonymous is not attacking the PSN at this time,” Anonymous said. “We realise that targeting the PSN is not a good idea. We have therefore temporarily suspended our action, until a method is found that will not severely impact Sony customers. Anonymous is on your side, standing up for your rights. We are not aiming to attack customers of Sony. This attack is aimed solely at Sony, and we will try our best to not affect the gamers, as this would defeat the purpose of our actions. If we did inconvenience users, please know that this was not our goal. This operation is a response to Sony’s attempt to deprive their customers of products they bought and therefore own, wholly and completely. Anonymous will not attempt to fight this by following the exact same course of action.

“We have plenty of tricks up our sleeves.”

Perhaps they’re trying to make Sony look like idiots for putting all those cops out with nobody showing up to protest or people got scared off or maybe they just aren’t as badass as they claim to be.